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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Know ye, That Osborne Ayer
a Corporal of Captain Lieut John I. Richards`
Company (L.,) 2<sup>nd</sup> Regiment of Massachusetts Cavalry
VOLUNTEERS, who was enrolled on the Thirty-first day of January
one thousand eight hundred and Sixty-three to serve Three years or
during the war, is hereby Discharged from the service of the United States
this Thirty-first day of May, 1865, at Wilmington Del
as per Telegram by reason of dated Adjt [Adjutant] Genl`s [General`s] Office May 4^th 1865
(No objection to his being re=enlisted is known to exist.*)

Said Osborne Ayer was born in Schuyler Falls
in the State of New York, is Thirty-four years of age,
Five feet nine inches high, Fair complexion, blue eyes,
brown hair, and by occupation, when enrolled, a Miner

Given at Wilmington Del this Thirty-first day of
May 1865.

Solomon Townsend
Capt 1^st Dela [Delaware] Calvary
Commanding the Reg`t
Mustering Officer

*This sentence will be erased should there be anything
in the conduct or physical condition of the soldier
rendering him unfit for the Army.}

[A. G. O., No. 99.]

E. ?. Raihs?
Surgeon U.S.A.
Incharge [In charge] of Hospital

Note at top left:
Office of A. L. M.
Wilmington May 31, 1865
Transportation furnished from
Wilmington to Philadelphia
C H Gallagher
Capt. & A L M